Supercollider in the news

With the CERN Large Hadron Supercollider coming on-line very soon, there is a lot of discussion about topics touched on in in my Supercollider SciFi story – including the possibility of wiping out this universe. You can listen to a Science Friday interview on the Supercollider with Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel Laureate in physics.
At http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200804111. He is excited by what the machine can reveal and does not think the universe is threatened. A New Yorker article on the LHC can be found at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/14/070514fa_fact_kolbert. The CERN people are sufficiently concerned about the end-of-the-world fear that they have put up a web page at http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html. It provides assurance that a single proton-proton colision involves less energy than swatting a mosquito, though the bean energy “is equivalent to a 400 tonne train (like the French TGV) travelling at 150 km/h.” Personally, I have bigger worries but I still think my story is fun.